7 Tips to Prevent Hair Loss
Tip #3 of 7, Nutrient Absorption
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You can read the transcript of this video below: 7 Tips To Prevent Hair Loss - Tip #3 of 7, Nutrient Absorption
| Hi, Dr. Shook here and this is tip number three of our seven part video series on how to prevent hair loss with Hashimoto's and hypothyroidism. We've already covered two tips that are really important in other videos. If you haven't seen those go back and watch them. |
| Tip number three revolves around absorption of nutrients. Okay, so a lot of people when they talk to me about hair loss there's this fixation on vitamins and that were deficient in something. Before you get into determining if that's appropriate for you or not, supplementing with the additional vitamins, you need to understand and and have a better idea of whether or not you can actually absorb what you're taking, right? What I'm talking about here is absorption of any of your vitamins and nutrients in your digestive tract. This is a really big problem with people that are hypothyroid and that have Hashimoto's because they're typically have a slow digestive tract. They have constipation is very common, they have all kinds of digestive issues with irritable bowel syndrome. If they have Hashimoto's those people are more likely to have other autoimmune conditions that can affect absorption like Crohn's disease in particular, or celiac disease. |
| Let's talk about a few different things with the digestive tract, like what causes you to have poor absorption. Well there are a number of different factors that affect absorption but this is something that really you have to critically analyze if you want to have improved hair growth or the ability to improve hair you have to be able to absorb your nutrients. You just can't take more because you're not going to absorb them, right? |
| One of the things is stomach acidity. You have to have adequate stomach acidity to break down your proteins and have the adequate stimulation of your gallbladder and your your pancreas so they release enzymes to break down the foods. With decreased stomach acidity you're not gonna absorb your nutrients well. There's a lot of reasons you can have decreased stomach acidity. We see things like H. pylori which is a bacterial infection the stomach. We see things like poor vagus nerve function which is actually one of our other topics we're going to discuss. There's a lot of different things that lower stomach acidity. |
| Number two, you have a digestive enzyme insufficiency. What that means is basically the digestive enzymes that your body makes are not sufficient enough to break down the food that you're consuming. Most of the time in my experience it has been that it's not because the person doesn't have the capacity to make them it's just because the gallbladder or the pancreas are not being adequately stimulated to release them. Digestive enzymes are another big problem with absorption. |
| Another thing is do you have a healthy small intestine wall? What I mean by that is you have to have a healthy small intestinal wall that can absorb the nutrients. If you have chronic inflammation, or things like celiac disease, these are things that can break down the small intestinal wall and cause you to have poor absorption. Okay, so you have to investigate and consider can you absorb it? Is the health of the intestinal wall good or not? |
| The next thing is the vagus nerve and I had mentioned that earlier. Now the vagus nerve originates in the brain. It travels to and innervates the entire digestive tract. Your brain fires or signals the gut and the digestive tract to work, and to function to produce enzymes, to do everything that it does, through the vagus nerve. If you're getting poor stimulation of the gut via the vagus nerve then you're going to have problems digesting. This comes back to well you have to ask the question why, right? Well why does the vagus nerve lose its ability to stimulate the gut? There's this thing called a gut brain connection that you might be familiar with, you might not. I don't have time to go into great detail but things like inflammation from autoimmunity, or from infections, or from food reactions, or from environmental chemicals, these are all things that can cause a decrease and a loss of this gut brain connection where it's not as efficient and your vagus nerve is not stimulating the gut properly. |
| The next thing is gut bacteria. When we talk about get bacteria, do you have a normal balance of healthy gut bacteria? This is this is where you may have heard that the term microbiome in the past. You hear people talk about the microbiome. The microbiome is being studied, I mean it's a very hot topic of research right now because we know that these digestive, these gut bugs, influence everything from psychiatry, from our ability, our mood, to our cravings, to our immune function, to vitamin production, to everything. It's unbelievable what we're learning about these bugs in our digestive tract right, our healthy, our bacteria. A lot of people have problems though where these bacteria overgrow, through a lot of different reasons. Through their diet, through antibiotic use, through medication use, through toxic exposures, through the use of all kinds of different things can influence and change our gut bacteria. So we get an overgrowth of opportunistic bacteria and you get this imbalance or what they call a dysbiosis. If that's occurring that needs to be addressed. Now sometimes people actually have got infections, where they have overgrowth of bacteria. We find that when we do fecal cytology testing or a stool panel. We find that quite frequently. That's a really important thing to consider is gut bacteria. |
| The next thing we look at and that can affect absorption are parasites. Now unfortunately parasites are a real thing. I know it's kind of a very scary thing to think about, that you might have bugs and things in your body that are parasitic and that are living off of you, right, and that are growing. But that's a reality. That's something that is possible. Now we find, I would say one out of every ten people that we do these fecal cytology profiles on we find parasites. There are waterborne parasites and then there are parasites that commonly you might consume like from you might get from vegetables, for example. Because if something is raised in the dirt, right, there are animals and there are other things that can contaminate it and can potentially lay eggs on it, so you can get exposed to it. If you go swimming in a lake or wherever else there's opportunity for you to be exposed to parasites. So we want to test for that. We do that in our fecal cytology panels, but that can affect absorption. |
| Now another thing is, and we're almost done, is yeast. Now yeast overgrowth is really common and it is something that is tied to a number of different health problems. In particular yeast overgrowth is a lot more common in the hypothyroid, the Hashimoto's crowd, people that have had those issues because with decreased thyroid hormone or thyroid hormone function you have decreased gut motility. So they tend to not have a normal transit time so their food as it's breaking down in the GI tract, it tends to stay there longer. When it stays there longer than it should it tends to overgrow with bacteria, yeast, and it's a good environment for an overgrowth of bacteria and fungus like yeast that we don't want. Yeast is a big problem as well for absorption. The last thing I just want to mention too are these inflammatory bowel conditions like Crohn's, which is inflammatory bowel of the small intestine, primarily small intestine, then also celiac disease. These are things that will dramatically affect the absorption. |
| Here's the thing, you can take all the vitamins you want to take but if you're not absorbing properly then you can't get the nutrients in. If you can't get the nutrients in then they can't be delivered to the hair follicle where it needs to go. That's something that's really really important I want to share with you, is absorption of your nutrients. Doesn't matter if you take a bunch of them if you can't absorb them and get them where they need to go. |
| I'm Dr. Shook. I hope this has been helpful, and stay tuned for the next one is number four. This was number three of our seven tips on how to prevent hair loss with Hashimoto's and hypothyroidism. If you're trying to grow it back, the same thing. If you would like more information on this, I've got a 28-page guidebook with tons of videos and links to this particular program I put together where we do a huge walkthrough. You can go to our website. If you click the link after this video's over it will take you to a website where you can look into that if you're interested. |
| We only charge $7 for that guidebook, that 28-page guidebook, just to help us cover the cost of technology to make that available to you. We just want to cover our technology costs, but we'll basically give you the guidebook. There's so many resources and we go into so much more detail of this, but if you're interested in that then go. I encourage you to go check it out and take a look. If not just stay with us for the next few videos and we'll finish these up and hopefully give you some good information to really make a positive impact on health. I'm Dr. Shook and I really appreciate you guys coming. Stay tuned for our next video. |
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